Books by Colleen McDannell
“Colleen McDaniel is one of the most eminent American religious historians and she’s written about Catholicism and material religion. But in this book, she casts her eyes on Mormon women in the wake of polygamy, from 1890 to today. And this is a fascinating book, with a very wide scope that looks at all these different lived realities of Mormon women.” Read more...
Benjamin E. Park, Historian
Interviews where books by Colleen McDannell were recommended
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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
by Richard Lyman Bushman -
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House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -
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Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
by W. Paul Reeve -
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The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
by Kathleen Flake -
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Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy
by Colleen McDannell
The best books on Mormonism, recommended by Benjamin E. Park
The best books on Mormonism, recommended by Benjamin E. Park
Mormonism is an entirely home-grown American religion. Nevertheless, as historian Benjamin E. Park explains, it struggled to win social acceptance in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century and that marginalisation profoundly shaped its development and, to some extent, its doctrines.
